who is this man?

[Ms Jen]

Thank God for the support of others- cat and snodderly and others online, and friends and family offline.

When I was meeting the asst principal at HS D18 called my office to whine about her computer that has a virus. My good friend and co-worker answered my phone [something she rarely does] and told D18 to deal with it, I had other things going on. Great! Then later in the day D18 called S16 [on the house phone since his cell is unavailable to him] and chewed him out.

I'd texted my friend C to tell her what was going on and Sat am she called to say they were splitting logs and could use S16's help. Got him out of the house to do hard labor and she chewed him out a little too.

When they were done I told H I was busy could he go get S16 so he did, and H heard what a good worker S16 is [see he is NOT a worthless son] and H interacted with adults- and got out of the house which was time I could have.

They came home, and the dad of the boy we carpool to HS with came over and S16 came down to shake his hand. The dad said jokingly I don't know if I can let him hang out with you anymore and then told H that he's a good kid and sometimes they get into situations... which was good bc H doesn't hear/believe it when I say things like that.

It was great. Others stepped in and said stuff so I didn't have to, and took both boys away for a time so I could have some space.

H and I went to Lowes and for a minute I so missed the adult. We had a civil evening, I went for a run, and we went to bed. I didn't even cry when he perched on his side of the bed.

I'm trying to look at this like a movie... what will H do next?